Choe Sang-ryo () is a North Korean politician and a Colonel general of the

Korean People's Army The Korean People's Army (KPA; ) encompasses the combined military forces of North Korea and the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The KPA consists of five branches: the Korean People's Army Ground Force, Ground Force, the Ko ...

. He is a member of Central Military Commission of the

Workers' Party of Korea The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), also called the Korean Workers' Party (KWP), is the sole ruling party of North Korea. Founded in 1949 from a merger between the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of South Korea, the WPK is ...

and served as a member of the

Supreme People's Assembly The Supreme People's Assembly (SPA; ) is the legislature of North Korea. It is ostensibly the highest organ of state power and the only branch of government in North Korea, with all state organs subservient to it under the principle of unified ...

, North Korea's unicameral parliament.

Biography

In April 1992 he was promoted to Major General. He was promoted to lieutenant general in April 1997. In 1998 he became a member of the 10th convocation of the

for the 658th electoral district. In April 2010 he was awarded the rank of a three-star colonel general (''Sangjang''). During the

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on September 28, 2010, he was elected a member of the Central Military Commission of the PPK Central Committee, the most important body of the Korean Labor Party responsible for military affairs, and also sat on the Central Committee for the first time. In 1997 he was member of the funeral committee of

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. After the

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in December 2011, Choe Sang-ryo was in 67th place in the 232-person Funeral Committee.

References

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